Most read stories

Releasing Your Inner Bigfoot

14261426 views22 comments11 fav

In the ’70′s, Bigfoot was romantically linked with Farrah Fawcett, spotted in an Arkansas 7-11 with Elvis, and tabbed the front-runner to be Secretary of the Interior had Gerald Ford defeated Jimmy Carter.

Provided

14261426 views88 comments44 favs

A man bows his head and crosses his chest before crossing the street and the rain keeps falling on his bare blue shirt and on top of his head The taxis will not stop The light’s still red as the man waits for the sign of the hands

Purpose

14261426 views44 comments44 favs

I gave you two daughters. I gave you four grandchildren. I'm done.

Inmate Words

14261426 views1212 comments88 favs

in White Heat there’s a character who reads lips using a mirror to see the mouths of prisoners in other cells that’s how I feel when I talk with you

Downland Ballad I :Photo-disintegration

14261426 views11 comment11 fav

Like a distant memory of past expectations I wander through past journeys, delineations chew on the fresh air like a discontented Wordsworth now free, free to roam where I will..

M. Nerveux Chronicles: Toad Suffers a Bad Business

14261426 views77 comments88 favs

Herr Toad smokin'

Her last good year

14261426 views00 comments00 favs

“We are NOT starving!” I stated emphatically. “What ever gave you the idea that you are starving? Honestly, Annie, you are so melodramatic. You have food in front of you right now, don’t you?’ I said pointing to her plate of potatoes and so

Rough Cut

14261426 views88 comments22 favs

He bites and imagines, numbed by want.

in defense of assholes

14261426 views33 comments22 favs

No excerpt for you.

the total compiler

14261426 views33 comments33 favs

The idea of an infinite textual universe occurs in many places in the works of Jorge Luis Borges. The contexts and permutations of language, which others had held to be perhaps infinite (allowing themselves to use such an imprecise term), that…

Coming From Alabama

14261426 views00 comments00 favs

In the state that the stars fell on, Love and I stumbled upon bits of God where he forgot sky and moon, too.

The Song of Jerome

14261426 views77 comments55 favs

"My love is with eggs!"

Urgencies

14261426 views1212 comments99 favs

...it was moving toward me from an oblique angle somewhere behind, steadily, relentlessly.

Assiduity Seven

14261426 views55 comments44 favs

Uzma dashes up the stairs ahead of me . . .

The Monday Wednesday Friday War

14261426 views77 comments33 favs

Ginny, the mother, was a lark in every respect of the word. Born and raised in central California farm country, to a family of lower middle class means, educated in public schools in whose bathroom stalls she was deflowered as unceremoniously as a pig ta

Cold

14261426 views1010 comments1010 favs

I told her I didn't love her. She said love wasn't important; she wanted to marry a man she could respect.

Twenty-two

14261426 views1313 comments55 favs

The year begins well here with much needed rain and tee-shirt temperatures.

Dancing With the Monster

14261426 views1212 comments66 favs

It comes to me at night, the monster. I don't even realize it's in the room until I hear it breathing behind me. It reaches out its hands and places them on my shoulders. Its fingers are furry and soft, but strong. They grasp the muscles on either side of my neck, and I…

Then You May Have Complicated Grief...

14261426 views22 comments11 fav

......Based on an ad I heard on the radio from Mass. General Hospital in BostonHave you ever experienced death?Have you been in grief,past the cut off periodof six months?Has it affected your life?Has it strained relations with your wife?It is our beliefthat you…

Inventorying

14261426 views22 comments33 favs

Me sad because of results set forth in my life story.

Terry, the Diamond-Eyed Barber

14251425 views44 comments11 fav

No matter how bad his hair turned out or how avocado shaped one of those miscreants could make his head look, he would remain silent.

My Melody

14251425 views44 comments44 favs

This is my melody. I will not shut it down for you, it will do all that on its own time. Everyone knows this. I don't need you to go on holiday. Can't really get away from yourself. This is my color guard. It goes with the everything I am. I'm not sorry I…

Santa

14251425 views55 comments44 favs

Santa’s ruddy snoze/

The Hunger of the Waxing Moon

14251425 views11 comment11 fav

I took advantage of a free period this afternoon to nap. When I awoke, I tasted blood. My tongue was swollen. I checked myself in the mirror and saw twin punctures on my lower lip with pinpricks of blood on each. I winked at my reflection and lifted my li

Horowitch and Twaddle

14251425 views22 comments22 favs

"...does the nurse, doctor or veterinarian experience greater sexual satisfaction than say the housewife in DesMoines or the sixth grade English teacher in Passaic?"

Intrepid Explorer

14251425 views33 comments22 favs

The Intrepid Explorer recounts his travels for the benefit of subscribers to the Magazine of the Museum of Everything

Marks in the Sand (Poetry-Rhythm)

14251425 views11 comment11 fav

I am only ever What you seem to be Without the leverage Of sweet reality

Veined and Green

14251425 views33 comments33 favs

Where we’ve penned heart shaped question marks, seeds sprouting bowed heads, a congregation of confused supplicants.

Quittin' Ain't Easy

14251425 views1616 comments55 favs

Hey, Y'all! Like I told y'all, I checked myself into this what you call a “ facebook Rehab Clinic” up here just about 40 miles outside of Kalispell, Montana in a little town called Gulag. I quit MySpace and that got me a reduced rate. Things are…

Any migration is forced

14251425 views99 comments44 favs

I’m not / going to change you I /promise